On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > From: Chuck Guzis > > > I routinely use Win98SE for my DOS tasks--it boots into DOS quite > > nicely if you edit the MSDOS.SYS file to say BootGUI=0. > > That's considerably more elegant than the way I use, to get my 98SE boxes > to > boot into DOS to start with (which I prefer, in case I want to do anything > that requires Windows not to be running, e.g. disk repairs); I just > re-named > 'WIN.COM' to 'LOSE.COM'. So I get an error message grumbling that it can't > find WIN.COM, and then it falls into DOS. > > Of course, my way, I do get the ineffable pleasure of saying "LOSE" to > start > Windows, every time I boot the machines. Never gets old. > > Noel > I built a dual-boot Win 2000 / DOS 6 Pentium III box, gives me the choice which OS to boot to upon boot. My A drive is a 5 1/4" drive, B drive is a 8 in drive. I like WIn 2000 a lot better than Win 98. There are still tentacles to modernity with 2000 a good bridge system. -- @ BillDeg
